kpo has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm kinda new to perlmonks, and still a novice perl programmer(1 yr. experience). Now, I've coded on both Linux and Win2k. I've been using Notepad and cmd to write/debug/run code... Im tired of it. Is there a good IDE out there in the free-affordable range? I've dl'ed the Komodo 1.2 trial version, looks awesome, but with no liscence, I can't REALLY try it out. I am still a student, so my liscence would only cost like $30...(unless I settle for Komodo 1.1, which is free) Any tips, suggestions, etc?

I have actually bought Komodo 1.2 and think it's grand. I was a bit miffed when they started charging for the student licence as well, but I still think it's well worth it.

At the office I still use Komodo 1.1 simply because I never got around to have the new licence ok'ed by the powers that talk money, and even that is good. To be honest, the changes from 1.1 to 1.2 are not that many.

But even when you have an IDE with syntax colouring, you can't really get away from commandline debugging...

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When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
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